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Williamina Fleming

1857 - 1911

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Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (15 May 1857 – 21 May 1911) was a Scottish astronomer. She was a single mother hired by the director of the Harvard College Observatory to help in the photographic classification of stellar spectra. She helped develop a common designation system for stars and cataloged more than ten thousand stars, 59 gaseous nebulae, over 310 variable stars, and 10 novae and other astronomical phenomena. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Williamina Fleming has received more than 558,436 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Williamina Fleming is the 165th most popular astronomer (down from 138th in 2019), the 1,382nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,289th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Williamina Fleming ranks 165 out of 644. Before her are Edward Walter Maunder, James Glaisher, Franz Xaver von Zach, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Norman Lockyer, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. After her are Harlow Shapley, William Robert Brooks, Luboš Kohoutek, Hubert Reeves, Michael H. Hart, and J. Allen Hynek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Williamina Fleming ranks 51. Before her are Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Mikhail Alekseyev, Émile Coué, Christian Michelsen, Le Pétomane, and Theodor Kittelsen. After her are Cyril Genik, Juan Vicente Gómez, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, Jacques de Morgan, and A. E. Waite. Among people deceased in 1911, Williamina Fleming ranks 28. Before her are Jozef Israëls, Jack Daniel, Sister Nivedita, Johan Svendsen, Jules Brunet, and Christian Bohr. After her are Joseph Dalton Hooker, Alexandre Guilmant, George Johnstone Stoney, Félix Ziem, James Curtis Hepburn, and Sam Loyd.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Williamina Fleming ranks 1,382 out of 8,785. Before her are Norman Lockyer (1836), Guy Pearce (1967), Steven Berkoff (1937), W. T. Stead (1849), John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), and John Newton (1725). After her are John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384), Beau Brummell (1778), Peter Mansfield (1933), John Bowring (1792), Hannah Chaplin (1865), and Peter Mayhew (1944).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Williamina Fleming ranks 23. Before her are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), George Biddell Airy (1801), John Russell Hind (1823), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), James Glaisher (1809), and Norman Lockyer (1836). After her are William Robert Brooks (1844), Margaret Burbidge (1919), N. R. Pogson (1829), Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), Francis Baily (1774), and Jeremiah Horrocks (1618).

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